First recorded in 1600–10
First recorded in 1870–75
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The word is found in some older English Dictionaries, and in France and Italy is still applied to the traversing index of a plane table or of a sextant.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
Theodolite and plane table work are not suited to very cold climates.
From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron
This he must regulate, either by one of the guns in his vicinity, or, better, by the aid of a bearing-plate, a species of plane-table which gives the angular bearing of the object.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
On such occasions the plane-table afforded him invaluable assistance.
From Memoir of William Watts McNair by Howard, J. E.
He was one of the first to grasp the true principles of using the plane-table when rapid action is necessary, and right well he turned his knowledge to account.
From Memoir of William Watts McNair by Howard, J. E.
Stillwell commenced a contoured plane-table survey of the neighbourhood of Winter Quarters.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
A rough plane-table map of the group was made by Hodgeman and myself.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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